Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,370, Isaiah Esmond, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New York
Osmond, Isaiah
P. 3,370
CONTENTS

Isaiah Esmonds Application for a Pension 28.880
J. M. Fairfield
Debit to A. Vanderpool M. C. at sum Hills P. sum House of Reps

State of New York { Columbia County } On this fourth day of October A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the justices of the Justice Court of the city of Hudson in said County now sitting, Isaiah Remond, a resident of the town of Coeske in said County aged seventy eight years, who being duly sworn according to Law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 -
That about the last of October 1775 while this applicant was a resident of Great Nine Patank, Dutchess County, he entered the service of the United States. Previously he was an Ensign in the Militia under one Capt Ebenezer Allen. That Capt John Bolin of the United States Troops wished this applicant to join his company - That said Bolin promised him the rank of Ensign if he would go. That he went to Fishkill where the troops were stationed. & there received an Ensigns Commission in the Company of said Capt Bolin, under which he engaged to serve one year, in the Regiment of Col Jonathan Bloom - (is not certain as to the "Jonathan") & he thinks the Brigade of Genl. Ten Broeck. At the same time, John Simmons, Benjamin Vaught, Jonathan Wells, & John Thorne enlisted as privates in the same company - That he served the full year of his engagement at Fishkill in said Company under said Ensigns Commission & was on constant duty in the service during that time.
He thinks after this Captain Bolin was appointed Forage Master - & this applicant engaged for another year in the company of Capt Ebenezer Allen (a different man from the one named above of the Militia) in the Regiment of Col Hopkins. & Brigade of Genl. Christopher Robins - He engaged in said Company as Ensign under the same Commission as before - The Lieutenants name was Northrop - The same privates named above also joined this company under this applicant - He recollects, that the troops were ordered from Fishkill in the Fall of 1776, about the commencement of his second year service, to White Plains, but just before they arrived there, they heard that the American troops had retreated

They retired to their old Station at Fishkill. They were fired upon by a British Scout while on this March This applicant had a ball shot through his hat & one through his coat - several of his company were wounded Some time during the fall of the year 1777. said Col Hopkins Regiment was ordered to the North. They marched to Salisbury in Connecticut, thence to Stockbridge in Mas- sachusetts, & thence to Bennington Vermont, where they found two other Regiments stationed. He thinks this was after the Battle at Bennington & before the surrender of Bur- goyne - Genl Stark was then at Bennington - While here his second year expired, about the time or soon after the surrender of Burgoyne - during which 2 d year he was in constant duty as Ensign in said Company And this applicant further says that he then again engaged in the same company again, same Regiment & with same asso- ciates for another year, & served said year as Ensign as aforesaid at Bennington aforesaid - He then engaged another year in the same company as Ensign & served it out at Bennington aforesaid & was there discharged with a written discharge by Col Hopkins. That he was discharged about the first of November 1779. having served four full years, & was never absent from his regi- ment except for short periods on furlough once in each year. He cannot find any living witnesses of his said service other than what is here with him. He believes all his said associates are dead -
And he hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any state -
In answer to the seven questions he says That he was born on the 10th of July 1755 at Long Island - after ward moved to Nine Patten That his family Bible contains the record of his age That since the Revolution he has resided at Nine Patten

& at Cooske where he now resides
That he was always a volunteer in the service
That the names of the Officers which he can recollect are Captains Bolin, & Allen. Cols. Bloom & Hopkins, & Genl. Ten Broeck & Roberts. & Lieutenant Northrop
That he received only one written discharge from Col Hopkins after four years service which was burnt together with his dwelling house at Cooske in April of 1817
That he always served as an Ensign under a Commission which he thinks was signed by Govt Clinton, which was burnt when his dwelling house was burnt & he has no documentary evidence,
And he would refer the War Department to his neighbors To John Pixley Esq. Rufine Lattin Revd Henry Townsend, Adam Shultz & Jacob Snyder who can testify to his character for truth & veracity & their belief of his service in the Revolutionary War
Isaac Esmond
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
D. Barker W.H.
Columbia County Pa. Spencer Esmond being duly sworn says he is fifty one years of age & is the son of the above named applicant, & has heard his father speak of his Revolutionary-war services, from his earliest infancy - has always heard him speak of serving four years & of being an Ensign. & has seen his papers before his house was burnt, & thinks he saw among them a commission, or what his father called a commission - but nothing was then thought of those old papers - & his recollection is not very distinct. & he recollects also of hearing him mention the officers named above
Spencer Esmond
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid D. Barker W.H.

We Harry Truesdell a clergyman residing in the town of Hillsdale, & being the nearest clergyman to the residence of the above applicant, & John W Truesdell residing in the same Town, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaiah Remond who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration That we believe him to be seventy eight years of age - That he is respected & beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion Harry Truesdell John W Truesdell Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Darker W.
Columbia County ss John W Truesdell being duly sworn says in addition to the above affidavit that he has been acquainted with said Isaiah Remond for twenty five years last past & during that time has always understood said Remond to have been in the service during the Revolution - Has repeatedly heard the old gentleman speak of such service, before any pension Laws were passed & he always spoke of his having been an Ensign in the service, during all the time & of having a Commission of Ensign - And this deponent further says that he has been to & through Dutchess County to find living witnesses of said Remonds service, & has written to distant parts for information, but with one exception, has found all said Remonds companions, dead, & that one too much broken by age to state any thing distinctly - to wit borne in Haight of Monroe County sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid John W Truesdell Darker W.

State of New York { Columbia County } ss Benjamin Doty of Austin- litz in said County being duly sworn says he is acquainted with Isaiah Esmond the above named applicant, & has been so acquainted for ten years past - that he this deponent is now aged seventy nine years & is a pensioner under the act of June 7 th 1832. & he further says that seven years ago he this deponent had frequent conversation with said Esmond respecting their services in the Revolu- tionary war; and said Esmond then told this de- ponent that he was an Ensign in the service & had served a long time - how long cannot now say - But this deponent distinctly recollects that in such conversation, said Esmond spoke of trans- actions that took place at Great Nine Partners & at Fishkill during the years 1775-1776 - From which this deponent knew that said Esmond must have been in the service - This Deponent was then a resident of Nine Partners, & was knowing to the transactions of that region - This deponent did not then know Esmond, as they must have resided fifteen miles apart -
Sworn & subscribed this 12 th of Feb. A.D. 1833 in open court D r Parker clk
Benjamin his Doty Mark

And the said Court hereby declare their opinion after investigating the matter & putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the said Isaiah Esmond was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states — & said Court further certify that Mary Truesdell, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is known to them as a worthy & dignified residing in said town of Hillsdale, that he & John W. Truesdell (who has sworn to said certificate, & also to an affidavit following) are credible persons & their statement entitled to credit — And said Court further certify that Spencer Esmond & Benjamin Doty who have also subscribed & sworn to preceding affidavits, are credible persons, being well known to said Court, & their statement entitled to full credit.

State of New York Monroe County ss:
On this 21 st day of August 1833 before me came Cornelius Haight of the town of Brighton in said County, a credible witness, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he was acquainted with Isaiah Bonomo in the time of the revolutionary war - that this deponent in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven volunteered as a private at for a short time after which this deponent returned to his home - that during the time for which this deponent volunteered as aforesaid the said Isaiah Bonomo went with a party of which this deponent was one to the army at Fishkill and did duty - that this deponent does not know how long said Bonomo was in the army -
Sworn and subscribed this 21 st day of August 1833 -
Cornelius Haight
J. M. L. Selden Vice Presdt.
State of New York Monroe County ss:
I certify that Samuel L. Selden Esq. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn, is first Judge of the County courts in & for said County, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and truly believe that his name above subscribed, is his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and official seal, this twenty first day of August 1833. Leonard Adams Clerk
The certificate of credibility incorporated in the Affidavit

I John D Parker, Clerk of the Inferior Court afore said, do certify that the above contains the original proceedings before said Court in the matter of application of Isaiah Esmond for a Pension
Witness my hand & seal of Office this 2 th day of December. A.D. 1885
J D Parker Clerk

State of New York } Columbia County } ss.
On this 2 nd day of December 1857. before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared Arabella Williams of Cooperske, Columbia Co NY. Who being duly sworn according to law declares & says that she is the daughter of Isaiah Esmond deceased the identical person who served in the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant. That the said Isaiah Esmond died on the 9 th day of October 1842, leaving no widow and the following surviving Children only viz - Arabella Williams -
That sometime during the life time of the said Isaiah Esmond it is believed that he applied to the pension office at Washington for a pension, under Act of 7 th June 1832, and that he filed the proper proof therein to entitle him to the same, and this declarant asks that the proofs in said office may be examined, and that the said pension which was suspended or rejected may now be allowed to the surviving children of the said Isaiah Esmond. Sworn & subscribed before me { Arabella her Williams this 2 nd day of December 1857. } mark.
James Austin Justice of the Peace Columbia Co
State of New York
Columbia County Clerk's Office } ss. I, John R. Burrie clerk of said County do hereby certify that James Austin before whom the foregoing Affidavit was made, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling

in said County, elected and sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the jurat of said affidavit is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 3 rd day of December A. D. 1857.
John R. Burrie
Robert R

Act of June 7. 1832.
Isaiah Emond (New York.)
Suspended Claim.
Power of Attorney to examine Claim.
Anderson
Chas. Lucher Atty. Present.

Know all men by these presents, That I Annadating of the town of Hillsdale in the County of Columbia and State of New York, wife of Refine Lattig of said town and daughter of Isaiah Osmond late of Cohake New York deceased do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint Charles C Tucker of Washington City D.C. My true and lawful Attorney and agent to prosecute the claims of Isaiah Osmond late of Cohake aforesaid for any Amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the act of June 7. 1832. or any other act or Resolution of Congress. and I do hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere to file additional Evidence or Arguments and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said claim and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and Confirm- -ing all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises Witness My hand and seal this twentieth day of June 1853. In Presence of Quincy Johnson Anna + Lattig - mark
State of New York Columbia County ss. On the 20 th day of June 1853 before me Quincy Johnson a Justice of the peace of said County, the above mentioned personally appeared Mrs. Anna Lattig to me well known to be the person des- cribed in & who executed the above power of Attorney and she thus appearing before me acknowledged the

for giving power of Attorney to be her act and Deed for the purposes therein mentioned. Quincy Johnson Justice of the peace
State of New York
Columbia County ss. On this 20 th day of June 1853. before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in & for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Anna Lattig a widow of skill and understanding in said County and made Oath according to Law that she is the identical Anna Lattig (and Daughter of Isaac Simond deceased) who executed the foregoing power of Attorney and that she is directly interested in said Claim and makes this Affidavit to be filed with such addi- tional Evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and Year above written.
Quincy Johnson Justice of the peace
State of New York
Columbia County ss. I David C. Nupus Clerk of the County of Columbia do hereby certify that Quincy Johnson Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn and that all his Official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my Official seal this Fifth day of June 1853.
D C Nupus clerk of Col County

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879.
REJECTED
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3370 P. O. Isaiah Osmond
Service: _____
Enlisted: 1852 Printed , 18 _____
Discharged: Book-Rejected and , 18 _____
Suspended Pensions Application filed: _____, 18 _____
gives Reasons for Alleges: suspension: "Suspended in 1833 for defective proof."
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 _____

Dec 19/17
Mr Cole
Wm H Barnett P.O. Box

House of Reps. Dec. 17, 1857.
Sir -
Enclosed are papers relating to pensions in the cases of David Burnett , decd, John Holman , decd, Isaiah Esmond, decd, Andrew A. Rice, decd, and Adam Barrough small white decd, which I am requested to hand to you for examination. Please address me in regard to them, as soon as convenient.
Very Respectfully, Yours &c.
Henry Bennett
Comm. of Pensions.
P.S. The parties in above cases reside in New York.

Rachel Baker
Widow of Peter act 36 & 38
Vermont
Real estate widened by Son Mr. Meacham
Ch Clk Feb 24/52

Revolutionary Additional evidence claim of heir of
Isaac Esmone N. York Suspended.
Cole
Filed Sep 10. 1833
J. E. Hasser Washington

Compt n of N. Y.
Capt. Ebenezer Allen's Comp y . not on his Rolls.
Rolls incomplete.
Claim of Isaiah Esmond Act 1832.
Ch l . C. Tucker,
Att y .
Present.

State of New York
Comptrollers Office
Albany Sept. 15 th 1853.
Sir.
The names of "Capt. Collins. Col. Bloomer. do not appear upon our rolls. Col. Hopkins. Reg't does appear; but there is no such name as "Ebenezer Allen." either as captain. or. in any other capacity in his regiment.
The explanation of this, is the fact that the rolls in this office are very incomplete & we can only give you what appears in our books.
Your Obdt Servt.
and S. Tucker is M c Intyre
McDoughty. Ex t Clerk.

Isaac Edmunds
Hon H. Burnett

State of New York Chenango County ss:
I Nelson Kellet, one of the Clerks of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, do hereby certify that satisfactory proof has been exhibited that Isaiah Edmond who is reputed to have served in the War of the Revolution in the capacity of a Lieutenant was a resident of Pofake in the County of Columbia and State aforesaid and died on the 9th day of October 1842 in said Town, leaving no widow, but the following surviving child only, viz: Abigail Williams
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Norwich this 6th day of December 1857.
A Purdy Clerk

I Isaiah Esmond NY Jan 32
Revolutionary Act 1832.
Additional Evidence.
Hon. J. P. Walsh
Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
Joseph...

Revolutionary. - Act 1832.
Additional Evidence.
Hon. L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
Isaiah Esmond Ms. 4. 1. 32

3370 Revs New York Isaiah Edmond Suspended act 7/1/32
Letter to H. A. Vanderpool Sept 13th 1832 to Rev. J. B. Mearns H. E. Haplin 4th October 1853. act 1-1832 (Auer.)
C. C. Tucker June 1854.

Tucker's Agency Office, Washington City, 1 st June 1854.
Hon. L. P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
Sometime since, I filed a Power of Attorney in the case of Isaiah Esmond , of New York, under the Act of 7. June 1832; and found that in a letter from your Office to Hon. H. Bennett written some two years since, it was intimated that the evidence of the service of Claimant should be found in the Comptroller's Office at Albany, N. Y.
Having made unsuccessful efforts to obtain such proof as is desired, and learning that there are Rolls of New York service in your Office and others among the Washington Papers in the State Department, I have to request that you cause a search of those Rolls to be made.
I enclose herewith a Letter from the Comptroller's Office stating that the "Rolls in that Office are very incomplete ."
As Esmond claimed to have served in Genl. Ten Broeck's Brigade in Dutchess County, N. Y. in 1776, I would refer you to American Archives, 5 th Series, Vol. 2, page 679 , by which it will appear that Genl. Ten Broeck was furnished with blank Commissions for three Companies , and that this occurred in the fall of the same year, and in the same County alleged by Claimant. It is probable that his Commission as Ensign, and the Commissions of Captain Allen and Captain Bolin were filled among the " blank commissions for three companies " by Genl. Ten Broeck. His narrative of services appears reasonable, and cannot but be true in part, as the above indicates, and you

will doubtless take pleasure in aiding the investigation.
If the Claimant's name and service, should not appear on your Rolls nor in the Department of State, please inform me of any other probable source of information within your knowledge.
The Claimant died in 1842, and has several children now living.
I have the honor to be, Very Respectfully, Your Ob t Serv t
Chas. B. Tucker. — Atty. for Claimant.

Power of attorney to examine Revolutionary Paper case of Arabella Williams daughter of Isaiah Emmond New York
Sep 1852
L. C. Haskell French

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Columbia John G. Grafford
} Be it known that before me a Justice of the Peace of said County personally appeared
Arabella Williams
aged fifty two years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the Daughter of Isaiah Emmond who was a revolutionary Soldier in the State of New York and that he died on the ninth day of September 1840 and that her mother, named
Martha died on the day of  the  day of  in the year 1819 and that they were married in the  day of  in the year 17 and that they were residents of Dutches
County in the State of New York and that they resided there years, and that she resides in Columbia County and that furthermore, do
BY THESE PRESENTS , constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington city, D. C., as my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government and State officers my rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due me as heir of Isaiah Emmond who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law I may be entitled to
In witness whereof, I have on this 26th day August 1852 hereunto signed my name, and affixed my seal.
Arabella Williams mark SEAL
Witness: Edw Langdon Witness: Nicholas Williams
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Arabella Williams has always by the community been known as the Daughter of Isaiah Emmond
Dated on this 26th day of August 1852.
John G. Grafford Justice of the Peace J. P.
State of New York
COUNTY OF Columbia
} to wit: John G. Grafford
Esq.,
I hereby certify, That John G. Grafford before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of County Court, this 26th day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
Columbia one thousand eight
John R. Currie Clerk.
* If a Widow applies, state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband." † State under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner—and amount of pension.

State of New York } Personally appeared Columbia County } before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths Henry P Williams a resident of the town of Hillsdale in said County aged fifty three years who being first duly sworn according to law deposes and saith that he was personally and intimately acquainted with Isaiah Esmond late of the town of Catskill in the aforesaid County and now deceased from about the year eighteen hundred and thirteen up to the time of his death and knew that during that whole time said Esmond was respected and believed to have been an officer doing service in the American army during a large portion of the war of the Revolution and the deponent further saith that he knew Mrs Arabella Williams whom application for a pension as the daughter of said Esmond is now before the department to have been the daughter of said Esmond Henry P Williams

Sworn and subscribed before me this thirty first day of August 1853
And I certify that Henry N Williams who executed the within affidavit is a credible witness
Leicester Johnson Justice of the peace
And I further certify that I have no interest in the pension sought to be obtained by Mrs Arabella Williams through the affidavit of the said Henry N Williams in any manner
Leicester Johnson Justice of the peace
1842 MS B.1.6 v. 4 p. 481 Ms. B.1.6 v. 4 p. 481

State of New York } Personally appeared Columbia County } before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths John F. Collins a resident of the town of Hillsdale in said County aged fifty one years who being first duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith that he was perso- nally acquainted with Isaiah Esmond late of the town of Copake now deceased from the early boyhood of said deponent up to the time of the death of the said Esmond and that during said time said Esmond was reputed and believed to have been an officer in the American army in the war of the revolution and in the year 1834 the deponent was applied to to assist in securing to said Esmond a pension but did not so assist as his business would not then permit him to give his attention to it The deponent further says that he is acquainted with Mrs. Arabella Williams and knows that she has been

been reported to be the daughter of the said Esmond and that the said Esmond resided with her for many years before his death John F. Collins
Sworn and subscribed before me this thirty first day of August 1855 And I certify that John F. Collins who executed the foregoing affidavit is a credible witness Quincy Johnson Justice of the peace.
And I have the right that I
State of New-York, } ss. Columbia County Clerk's Office.
I, D. C. NEEFUS, Clerk of the County of Columbia, do hereby certify that Quincy Johnson whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine. And that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the seal of said County, this 5. day of September A. D. 1855
D. C. Neefus Clerk.

been reported to be the daughter of the said Esmond and that the said Esmond resided with her for many years before his death John F. Collins
Sworn and subscribed before me this thirty first day of August 1855
And I certify that John F. Collins who executed the foregoing affidavit is a credible witness Leicester Johnson Justice of the peace
And I further certify that I am in no way interested in the pension sought to be obtained there- under the aid of the above affidavit Leicester Johnson Justice of the peace